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tonight, we have breaking news. cnn confirms the identity of the man accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians in a house to house shooting spree last weekend. 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bails, an 11-year veteran. let's get to chris lawrence at the pentagon. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you he's originally from the midwest and he was living in ohio until about 2001. after 9/11, that's when he joined the army. he's been based out at joint based lewis mcchord for the majority if not all of his military career. did about three combat tours in iraq. this was his first ...

That's a felony. so i think that the only thing they do have under virginia law, if they show that he was so drunk and so intoxicated that he didn't have the wherewithall to understand it, that is their big argument, best argument. >> i think what the jury will -- go ahead, i'm sorry. >> go ahead, bob. >> i was going to say i think what the jury is really going to focus on, if i was a juror, is was this a robbery? if it flows from that, you got felony murder. >> you know what, joey? as the prosecutor appropriately pointed out to the jury, being drunk is not an excuse to a crime. it's not an ex...

Killed her. she apparently committed infidelity and that's why he kicked in the door. he wasn't there to tuck her in. you are kicking the door. you are there to do damage. megyn: he was insanely angry according to the prosecutors. the defense -- they are suggesting i guess he had 15 drinks that day. is that any sort of a mitigating factor? >> it goes against the issue of intent. and that's the issue. the issue is whether when you are drunk you are the mental capacity to develop a scheme or plan to kick down the door for purposes of kill something one. this could be viewed that matters got out ...

coptic hospital where more than a dozen bodies, people killed in these demonstrations. there was a lot of anger against the military leaders of egypt, people accusing them of working with muslim fanatics against the christian minority, minority that makes up about 9% of the population. what we also saw were muslims coming to console the families of people who had lost victims in this fighting. so there is an attempt on sort of a personal street level by people to narrow this widening sectarian divide. but there's a feeling that the government is unwilling or incapable of really bring...

Folks like john edwards. >> and silvio berlusconi only falls in the middle of the matrix. it makes you wonder what a guy has to do to get up higher. >> he brought to the world's attention bunga-bunga -- >> that is true. >> on any matrix, that is a mitigating factor. we're talking imf, who's next, does lagarde have it locked down? >> the europeans want to get it moving quickly. there are several turkish candidates. the classic european, the french, british and germans want to move very quickly and nail this down. lagarde as an incumbent finance minister, as a woman has huge advantage, as i hear...